Definition of Management:

Management is a universal phenomenon and is concerned with all the aspects of an organization’s
functioning. Lack of good management may lead to unnecessary wastage of money,
time and efforts of an organization.

George R Terry:
Management is process consisting of planning, organizing, actuating and
controlling, performed to determine and accomplished the objectives by the use
of people and resources

E F L Breach:
Management is concerned with seeing that the job gets done. Its takes all
centre on planning and guiding the operations that are going on in the
enterprises.

F Drucker:The substitution of thought for brawn and muscle of knowledge for folklore and
superstition and of cooperation for force.

American Management Association:    Management is guiding human and physical resources into dynamic organizational units which attain their objectives to the satisfaction
of those served and with a high degree of morale and sense of attainment on the
part of those rendering service.